it's time to start another strange people/tales of the gym thread

[smallmovesal]

ok i saw a guy openly standing at the mirror in the gym pulling at his nose hairs the other day!

now why have all the gross behaviours i've witnessed at the gym always been performed by men? are there any disgusting women at your collective gyms??

 

[FitFossil]

Boy, I can't wait for this thread to get started...it's going to be good!

As far as nose hair goes, just be thankful this guy was actually AWARE he had nose hair and that SOMETHING should be done with it. Still, to have to witness that at the gym...that's pretty gross!

I think it's gross when women come in smelling drenched in horrible perfume. Then they do cardio for several hours straight and the perfume and sweat smell mix together. (and this is at 5 AM!!)

Leaving the equipment all sweaty is gross, but what about when someone leaves a big GREASE spot from their greasy head?!

Normally, I never go to the gym on Saturdays, but when I do, there is always this man there with the worst B.O. (body odor) imaginable. It's not just gym sweat, it's foul, and it's like that every time I've seen him.

 

[smallmovesal]

spatterson that reminded me... last week there was a man doing the leg press and he had stacked up the weights really heavy... you know when you push you breath fairly hard sometimes? well, this guy breathed out really hard and yelled out a count of his reps each time. and he'd stacked up the weight so damn heavy he was struggling with rep 2... jackass.

 

[Phemomena]

okay, i'm going to come off sounding pretty bad on this one, but my gym is full of gay guys... (nothing against them, its just the demographics of the area/my gym)... and well, you've never seen anything in the gym until you watch gay guys spot each other on squats... OKAY, GET A ROOM!!!!

other strange people.... there was this older guy who came into the gym and stood at the little fence dividing the machines from the freeweights and just stared at everyone doing their workouts... hello, the gym is not a spectator sport!

then there's the guys that go in there (and i'm assuming their straight and have a complex about being in a gym that is 70% gay), anyways, these guys are have HORRIBLE form (this one guy does bb curls, and it, from what i can it's lower back day for him since that's whats doing the work...) well, we all seen these guys before, right... nothing new... but why oh why do they all want to try to pick ME up?????

then theres this group of girls that for some reason think its necessary to compete with me on my lifts??? (i'm not the strongest girl in the world, but i probably am one of the strongest in my gym... ) i've heard them say if that girl can do it, so can i, great if i motivate you, but i've never seen such 2 inch reps in my life, do your workout to suit your own body, not mine...

then there was the good morning squat guy the other day.... did perfect, butt to the floor squat form on the way down and f'd up his back so bad on the way up that it was a good morning by the time he finished the movement... wtf????

well, i'm sure i'll think of more, but then again, i betcha there are a lot more stories of me and my insane rambling on leg days... (i talk to myself and cry... literally... )

 

[Fatback]

OK, I'm game. Ever hear, "never ask a potbelly man how to have a flat stomach?" Well, why is it, it's always the ones who are not in shape, that feel like they can give you advice?

There this guy, weighs maybe 180-190, no shape really, would load the leg press with 11 plates (45 lbs) on each side (make sure everyone is watching) and then proceed to do leg presses. Do I really even need to continue, you know all he did was move the plates 1 centimeter of a space, but he actually believes he's doing something, what's even funnier is he actually thinks the conversation about him is positive, whereas we're all laughing at him.

Why is it men, who are not use to lifting, always feel they need to prove they can lift for their first time as much as a women who's been lifting for years and quite frankly can go relatively heavy. You don't se them for two weeks cause their muscles are in traction.

OK, what's with the loud grunting?

 

[ann]

Had one lady once in aerobics, who had the worst BO......I literally left the room. I love long hair, but this other girl who comes in, has her hair down to her behind.(really pretty) But she does'nt put it up while lifting or doing aerobics. I am always afraid she is going to get it caught in the machines.

 

[EVE]

I will NEVER EVER swim in another public pool!!!!
I went to use the handicap bathroom stall because it's the only one that has a bench where I can lay my stuff. It was occupied so I had to wait. Let me back up a second..... I forgot to mention the HORRIBLE STENCH coming from the bathroom area that I could smell way before I even got to that section of the locker room. I swear It smelled like what I can only imagine a pile of dead rotten bodies would smell like. Anyway, so finally a really really FAT woman with a pink bikini comes out of the stall and I go in and suddenly find myself engulfed in that wretched stank. *I think I can taste my lunch coming back up*.
So for some reason I look inside the toilet and there's fucking diarrhea splashed all over the bowl (even after she had flushed the damn thing) and there was blood smeared on top of the seat. So, obviously this bitch was on the rag and her ass was so fat that she couldn't manage to keep her pussy off of the front of the seat and on top of that, the poor thing had dysentery. Soooo, I just walk out. I look over and what do you know but the bitch grabs her towel and heads straight for the pool without ever giving the showers a second thought. (AAGGGHH!)
Now I KNOW there is NO WAY this girl was able to remove all of that nastiness between those fat cheeks with just a swipe of some toilet paper.....DISGUSTING!!!

 

[EVE]

Today this woman was shaving off the bottoms of her feet in the shower area. Dead skin EVERYWHERE. She did this on a bench....don't sit on benches!

 

[Super Girl 22]

ok i'm another one that has nothing against gay men, but...

there are these 3 gay guys in my gym...and very obviously gay! i watched them one night while i was between sets. one guy was doing chest, one guy was spotting and one guy was just standing there (probably with his thumb up his ass...), anyway the guy was struggling on his reps and not only was the guy spotting him but he would motivate him by pinching his arms (in that "cute" way) and then kissing his arms. what a laugh! i'm usually pretty intense when i'm in the gym but whenever i see these guys working out, i get a good laugh. they always have their hands all over each other...it cracks me up...but on the other hand, get a goddamn room!

 

[Star]

There's this lady that comes into my gym...full make up, can of aqua net on the bouffant, and wears sunglasses while working out.........wtf??

Star

 

[jeangenie]

Actually the gay guys at my gym (probably 70%) are not only the biggest and cutest, but best behaved too. What cracks me up are these out of shape straight guys who need to prove a point to the gay guys who've been lifting for years. (Kinda like Phem's point about guys who need to prove they can lift more than women to prove their whatever-the-hell-it-is-they-need-to-prove). Anyway this one guy (let me just say black socks, white sneakers) was staring down these 2 big gay guys doing squats and proceeded to attempt the same weight immediately after they were done WITHOUT a spotter. I could barely watch. He starts up through his rep, gets barely halfway into the move and then rips this enormous fart for his finishing move before dropping the bar and looking like hes about to go into cardiac. Cleared out the entire free weigh area. Me and the girl working out next to me had to stop our set and clear the area we were cracking up so hard. Priceless.

Also gross was the medicine ball that someone decided to stick a huge used bandaid to. MMMmmmmm.

 

[poohbear]

I must say those were pretty disgusting. I must request that we try to avoid using the 3 letter word that begins with F** that describes a person's disposition, which I'm sure they'd rather not be in.

Anyhow, there's this gym that had windows (one way mirrors) installed the wrong way. People can see in, but you can't see out the window. The cardio equipment lined the front of the window. One day a disgruntled employee stood outside and watch the women do their cardio. He then took out a shotgun and shot two women dead. He walks in, shoots and kills one of the workers, then proceeded to blow his brains out.

On a different note: there's this guy........... ummm there's this guy. Handsome and buff as he can be... and a pilot, as well. I walk into one of the lifting area and smell this horrible stench. I look around, but noone was in there except him. Ok, I just continue on to the bench press. He's leaning against the power rack like he's about ready to rip one out. The smell travels 20 feet to where I was. I open several windows, complaining of the heat. It's freakin' nearly snowing outside I thought he knew better not to down a protein shake before a workout.

I was doing deads (regular) one night. A man in his 50s come in sporting a big leather belt over his oversized belly. He commented on my lifts and told stories of when he use to powerlift. I added more weight and did another set. He asks if he can jump in and work in with me. I said, "what do you want to start with?" "This is fine." "Are you sure? you just go here." "Young lady, I was lifting this weight before you were even born" He adjusts his belt, grabs the bar and... and... and struggles to get it up, but he does. Then he realized that he had to return the weight. He tried straightening up after releasing the bar, but couldn't. He hobbled out to the lockers and haven't seen him to this day. It was only 245lbs, but why do men think they have to show us women up?

 

[jazziemel]

Well in my Gym I have an issue with the instructors, it seems all the aerobic, and spin class instructors are huge, I mean fat with flabby stomachs and two of them have the biggest asses I have ever seen in my life, you can actually use there butts as props to tie your laces or set a bowl of fruit on, how can I be motivated looking at that.

It is this girl that swears she is all that, she wears the exact same outfit everytime she comes in the gym, not every week everyday.

Another girl walks around with a sports bra and tights, no shirt, but her stomach is and sides are all fat with stretch marks, does she have a mirror in her house.

We have alot of bad bodies walking around with nothing covering them up!!!!! I hate that

 

[Phemomena]

cute funny story

there were these two guys (read newbies) doing preacher curls beside me today while i was working shoulders... when the one finishes his set he started complaining that his 'lower arm was feeling just as much as his upper arm, was he doing something wrong?'

"no" his friend says "when you work your biceps you work your foreceps too..."

foreceps... awww.. lmao... i had to drop my weights and proceed over to the other side of the gym as not to laugh at them directly in front of 'em ... hehe

he said foreceps... lol ...

 

[ann]

Ok Phem.....gotta admit, having a shitty day today ( think the heat is frying my brain ), but read your post, and had a good laugh Too funny---hey, I did shoulders today also. Now if we just lived closer, we could of done em together

 

[Phemomena]

nah, i'm a wimp... you'd laugh at me... (actually i'm babying my right shoulder right now... i was getting a decent db overhead press set of 6 on with the 50s a couple weeks ago...)

now i'm working with the 35s

 

[tripleV]

ok that is soooo funny - FORCEPS!!!
i'm glad you could *retain* your laughter, i probably would have done one of those *spraying* laughs!

ann...are you a torontonian too?

 

[ann]

No Torontorian (sp?) Triple V......just nestled in the deep south--Ala. What about you? Now I gotta come kill you of course , after telling you that But its a slow night on the boards and nobody is going to read this--hahaha . And Phemomena--sorry about the shoulder. But you would of been showing my ass with those 50's You go girl!!!

 

[tripleV]

close to Toronto sort of. I am in Ottawa...blah! The Nation's capital.
I would love to be down South. You is lucky girl.

I must agree Phem would wipe the floor with my fat ass with those 50's. hehe

 

[ann]

You girls are too far away---damn---would be so fun to have some other girls to work out with, with the same goals and such.......boo hoo......and by the way, I am a mirror hog myself. I continually yell at everyone to get out of my view, if they are blocking me Hell, I am paying good money to watch myself flex and grunt

 

[CdnChick26]

It is this girl that swears she is all that, she wears the exact same outfit everytime she comes in the gym, not every week everyday.

Another girl walks around with a sports bra and tights, no shirt, but her stomach is and sides are all fat with stretch marks, does she have a mirror in her house.

While on the topic of nasty workout clothes, I saw a lady in her mid-30's last week working out on the stairmaster, then doing leg curls - hilarious part is, she was wearing a white frilly out-of-style 1980's blouse, white sandals, and a jean skirt! ack!